Jonathan Standard

Jonathan Standard (13 December 1712-14 May 1789) was a politician of the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.

Biography
Jonathan Standard was born on 13 December 1712 in New York City in the Province of New York to an English-American family. Standard's father was a lawyer and his mother was a textile factory worker. Standard followed in his father's footsteps and became a barrister in New York, representing the poor in court. During the American Revolutionary War, he supported the idea of an indepedent United States, and funded the creation of a Tryon County militia. After the war's end, he retired to his estate in Albany, where he died in 1789.